Parsimonious

parsimonious
    adj 1: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift
           relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most
           penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" [syn:
           {parsimonious}, {penurious}]
    

Parsimonious \Par`si*mo"ni*ous\, a. [Cf. F. parcimonieux. See
   {Parsimony}.]
   Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal
   to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. --
   {Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness}, n.
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         A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.
                                                  --Bacon.
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         Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the
         expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war
         will drain us of more men and money.     --Addison.
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   Syn: Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close; saving;
        mean; stingy; frugal. See {Avaricious}.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "parsimonious":
      Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, canny,
      careful, chary, cheeseparing, conserving, dwarfed, dwarfish,
      economic, economizing, exiguous, forehanded, frugal,
      frugal to excess, impoverished, jejune, labor-saving, lean,
      limited, meager, mean, miserly, money-saving, narrow, niggardly,
      overfrugal, paltry, penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, poor,
      provident, prudent, prudential, puny, saving, scamping, scant,
      scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, skimp, skimping,
      skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation,
      stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin,
      thrifty, time-saving, too frugal, unnourishing, unnutritious,
      unwasteful, watered, watery